Discover life impulses

Methods and concepts for the investigation of intrinsic life impulses

  • Thilo Hinterberger
  • Sabine Poetsch
  • Helmut Kaiser
  • Ramona Ritter
Keywords: Research retreat, self-experience, Kooperative Werden, group processes

Abstract

The research retreat entitled „Discovering impulses of life – methods and concepts for research of intrinsic life impulses“ took place from May, 11th to 15th in 2016 at the Fraueninsel, Chiemsee, Germany. It was led by Prof. Thilo Hinterberger and his partners Sabine Poetsch and Helmut C. Kaiser. Further methodological and experiential contributions from many of the 27 participants created a rich and powerful space of experiences. The retreat intended on one hand to provide participants a special opportunity to familiarize and share a number of methods and elements of self-experience. On the other hand, a common form of research was practiced represented by sensing the potentiality of the presented processes as well as the evaluation and reflection of the processes with respect to possible improvements and the relationship to intrinsic impulses of life. In this article contents and properties of the experiential elements are reported.

Author Biographies

Thilo Hinterberger

Prof. Dr. (Dipl. Phys., Dr. rer. nat.), physicist and neuroscientist, is Professor of Applied Consciousness Sciences in Psychosomatic Medicine at the University Hospital Regensburg. His interdisciplinary research projects combine the fields of medicine, neuropsychology, therapy, art and the natural sciences. www.ab-wissenschaften.de

Sabine Poetsch

(Dipl. Kauffrau), is a coach in private practice in Hamburg (DVNLP, FPI/EAG, CoreDynamik) and one of the co-initiators of the cooperative Werden. After more than 20 years of working in international business enterprises, she now accompanies and supports people who want to free themselves from social constraints and develop and live their individual potential. www.kooperative-werden.de

Helmut Kaiser

(Dipl. Sozialpäd., for music and movement), works as a freelance musician, rhythmist, lecturer (among others at the University of Social Sciences and the University of Regensburg) and instrument maker. His intention is to convey rhythm, music and sound as an elementary human experience for the development of intuitive and creative processes in private and professional life. www.rhythmuswelt.de

Ramona Ritter

(B.A. Health and Social Management), is in Berlin on the way to company health management. After more than two decades of experience as a freelance and salaried manager for public relations, among others with one of the leading full-service agencies in Germany, she now focuses her actions on the individual and collective effectiveness for a sustainable health and social culture.

Published
2017-07-22
Issue
Vol. 23 No. 1 (2017): Issue 1/2017 Approaches to promote health and holistic growth
Section
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